Daniel Ziblatt

@dziblatt.bsky.social

Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ leads research group at WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'

Brings to mind this idea this sharp idea: "Power manifests itself in the regime's ability to impose its fictions upon the world. No one is deceived by the charade, but everyone is forced to participate in it" From Lisa Wedeen's brilliant book Ambiguities of Domination on Assad's Syria

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Some news: Based on work out of the @wzb.bsky.social earlier this year Nourhan Elsayed, Hanno Hilbig, Sascha Riaz, & I published this on how communist era schooling in Germany affects attitudes today in the "British Journal of Political Science." A quick summary www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - Volume 55

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